MIA: International Working-Class Organizations: Comintern Archive: Red International of Labor Unions

 

 

Red International of Labor Unions
(Profintern)
1921 – 1937

“The word ‘Profintern’ is a contraction of the Russian term ‘Professionalye Soyuz Internationalnye’ or, literally, ‘Occupational Union International.’”—The World’s Trade Union Movement, Lecture 5.


Introduction

  First World Congress, July 1921

Fraternal Greetings:


First-Hand Accounts:

  Second World Congress, November 1922

Statements:

1922: Joint Appeal of the Comintern and Profintern on the United Front


R.I.L.U. Figures

 

Pamphlets

1921: Program of Action of the Red International of Labour Unions, A. Lozovsky

1925: The Movement for World Trade Union Unity, Tom Bell

1927: What is the Red International of Labour Unions?, A. Lozovsky

1929: The Problems of Strike Strategy: Decisions of the International Conference on Strike Strategy

 

Profintern Affiliates

Britain:
National Minority Movement (1924-1933)

United States:
Trade Union Education League (1920-1928)

Rules [Constitution] for the Trade Union Educational League, 1922

Labor Herald Library No. 1 (1921): The Railroaders’ Next Step, Wm Z. Foster
Labor Herald Library No. 4 (1922): Bankruptcy of the American Labor Movement , Wm Z. Foster
Labor Herald Library No. 10 (1924): The World’s Trade Union Movement, A. Lozovsky
Labor Herald Library No. 11 (1924): Russia in 1924, Wm Z. Foster
Labor Herald Library No. 13 (1924): Lenin: The Great Strategist of Class War, A. Lozovsky
Labor Herald Library No. 14 (1924): Lenin and the Trade Union Movement, A. Lozovsky
Labor Herald Library No. 18 (1926): Strike Strategy, Wm Z. Foster

Trade Union Unity League (1929-1935)